Dead-end-wire connection



5, 1930. w. H. B. LAVARACK ET AL 1,772,184

' DEAD END WIRE CONNECTION Filed Sept. 16 1926 Patented Aug. 5, 1930UNITED STATES WILLIAM H. B. LAVARACK, OF PINE BUSH,

AND RAY PATTERSON, OF ALBANY, NEW

YORK

DEAD-END-WIRE CONNECTION Application filed September 16', 1926-.

This invention relates to connectors and especially a connector such asis required to anchor the end of an aerial wire.

A principal object of this invention is to produce a dead end connectionfor a wire line which will be simple to manufacture, in expensive tomanufacture, easy and inexpensive to install and efficient in use.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the description of theparticular physical embodiment selected to illustrate the inventionprogresses, and the novel features of the invention will be particularlypointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, and the particular physicalembodiment selected to illustrate the invention, reference is had to theaccompanying drawing, wherein we have illustrated a particular preferredphysical embodiment of the invention, and wherein like characters ofreference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,and in which:

Figure 1, is a side elevational view of our dead end connection,including a support to which it is attached, and the wire held by it;Fig. 2, is a cross sectional view on the plane indicated by the line11-11 of Fig. 1, viewed in the direction of the arrows at the ends ofthe line.

In the drawings the numeral 1 indicates a fragment of the well-knowncrossarm. Through an orifice in the cross arm 1, extends the member 2,which in the form shown is a cylindrical metal member, screw threaded onone end and made integral, on the other end, with an elongated annulus3. A nut 4;, is threaded onto the end of the member 2, and so serves tohold the member 2 in position in the cross arm. The usual washers 5 and6, are interposed, as shown, as is usual, so that the wood of the crossarm is not injured.

The annulus is in form elongated, the body being preferably made ofround metal, preferably iron. The end portions of the annulus Serial No.135,796.

are dissimilar. One end is struck from a center, as 7 whereas the otherend is struck from a center, as 8, to two being merged by the line as 9.This construction provides a space about the center 7, through which theannulus 10 made of insulating material, may readily pass transversely tothe annulus 3. The annulus 10 is formed with a peripheral groove 11, sothat when the annulus 10 is positioned in the space of which 7 is thecenter, and then pushed toward the other end portion of the annulus 3,the groove 11, co acts with the body of the annulus 3, so that when theannulus 10 is in the position as shown in Fig. 1, it cannot then bemoved transversely to the annulus 3. The position of the annulus 10 asshown in Fig. 1, is the position which the annulus 10 would take andremain in when pulling force is applied to the wire 16, which dead endsat the annulus 10, by being looped through the orifice 12 in the annulus10, and then fastened to itself by any suitable means as by a clamp 13.

Applicants prefer to make the annulus 10 somewhat elongated as shown inside elevational View in Fig. 1, so that better bearing of the body ofannulus 3 in the peripheral groove 11, is obtained.

Although we have particularly described the construction of one physicalembodiment of our invention, and explained the operation and principlethereof, nevertheless, we desire to have it understood that the formselected is illustrative, but does not exhaust the possible physicalembodiments of the idea of means underlying our invention.

What we claim is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States is:

A dead end construction for a wire line, comprising an elongated annulusof substantially circular cross-section and having opposite end portionsconstructed with openings formed upon different radii, the opening ofthe inner end portion being larger than the opening of the outerportion, asecond annulus 7. end.

lVILLIAM H. B. LAVARACY. RAY PATTERSON.

